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A God Worth Worshiping : = Toward a Critical Race Theology.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A God Worth Worshiping :/
Reminder of title:	Toward a Critical Race Theology.
Author:	Loynes, Duane Terrence, Sr.
Description:	1 online resource (269 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-01A(E).
Subject:	Theology. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355176742

A God Worth Worshiping : = Toward a Critical Race Theology.
Loynes, Duane Terrence, Sr.

A God Worth Worshiping :Toward a Critical Race Theology. - 1 online resource (269 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)

Includes bibliographical references

Theologian James Cone has declared that White supremacy is the American Church's greatest, original, and most persistent sin. Although the Church has engaged in numerous attempts to remedy racism, theology still seems to witness to a God that stands relatively unopposed to the status quo of racial injustice and marginalization. This dissertation begins with the claim that Christian theology still operates from the normativity of whiteness. I will argue that, although the Church has made admirable progress with regard to racial justice, the attempts have been at the surface: the underlying structural logic of White supremacy remains intact. My thesis will be that the systemic problem in North American Christianity of a persistent "White privileged theology" or "normalized whiteness" can best be eliminated by constructing a theological response in classical categories---theodicy, anthropology, and epistemology. A black existential phenomenological approach---perhaps best illustrated in the work of Lewis R. Gordon---and the intersectional analysis exemplified in critical race studies, offer significant promise for exposing and correcting the existing methodological privilege of White theology.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355176742Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Theology.
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